Southern Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 21 Texas counties. This ecoregion borders most of the southwestern portion of the Rio Grande River and extends into northern Mexico. In Texas, it encompasses much of the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s South Texas Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Southern Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Argythamnia mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wildmercury | |
Argythamnia mercurialina var. pilosissima | Tall Silverbush | |
Argythamnia neomexicana | New Mexico Silverbush | |
Aristida oligantha | Prairie Threeawn Oldfield (Prairie) 3-awn Oldfield Threeawn | |
Arabis petiolaris | Brazos Rockcress Rock-cress Brazos Rock-cress | |
Aristolochia pentandra | Marsh's Dutchman's Pipe | |
Argemone polyanthemos | Crested Pricklypoppy Annual Pricklepoppy Bluestem Pricklepoppy Bluestem Prickly Poppy Pricklypoppy Thistle Poppy White Prickly Poppy White Pricklypoppy | |
Aristida purpurea | Purple Threeawn Purple 3-awn Purple Three-awn Red Threeawn | |
Aristida purpurea var. longiseta | Red Three-awn Fendler Three-awn Purple Threeawn | |
Aristida purpurea var. nealleyi | Blue Threeawn | |
Aristida purpurea var. purpurea | Purple Threeawn Red Threeawn | |
Argemone sanguinea | Red Pricklypoppy Rose Prickly Poppy Red Prickly Poppy | |
Aristolochia serpentaria | Virginia Snakeroot Virginia Dutchmanspipe | |
Argythamnia simulans | Plateau Silverbush Tall Wild-mercury | |
Arbutus xalapensis | Texas Madrone Madrone Texas Arbutus Manzanita Xoxocote Amazaquitl | |
Asclepias asperula | Antelope-horns Spider Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Spider Antelope-horns Antelope Horns | |
Asclepias emoryi | Emory's Milkweed | |
Astragalus emoryanus | Emory's Milkvetch | |
Asclepias engelmanniana | Engelmann's Milkweed | |
Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
Astrolepis integerrima | Hybrid Cloakfern | |
Astranthium integrifolium | Entireleaf Western Daisy | |
Astranthium integrifolium ssp. ciliatum | Entireleaf Western Daisy | |
Asclepias incarnata ssp. incarnata | Swamp Milkweed | |
Astragalus leptocarpus | Rare Loco Milkvetch Slimpod Milkvetch | |
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